VISIBLE CITIES Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans Leonard Blusse ... I... more VISIBLE CITIES Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans Leonard Blusse ... In an innovative, transnational perspective, Leonard Blusse chronicles the economic and cultural transformations in maritime East Asia through three legendary harbor cities. ...
The vista that awaited the early nineteenth century visitor to Batavia as he disembarked from the... more The vista that awaited the early nineteenth century visitor to Batavia as he disembarked from the launch that had brought him over the shoals of the Batavian roadstead was not a cheerful one.
Riverscapes have recently gained renewed scholarly attention in historical, environmental, and cu... more Riverscapes have recently gained renewed scholarly attention in historical, environmental, and cultural studies on man and the natural environment. This paper explores the extent to which the main rivers of the Southeast Asian subcontinent have given shape to the rice growing human societies that emerged in their basins and, further, how those rivers may have influenced distinct historical state formation processes. In Southeast Asian islands, riverscapes became the cradles of a completely different kind of state formation process: the estuary-based Malay port polity.
VISIBLE CITIES Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans Leonard Blusse ... I... more VISIBLE CITIES Canton, Nagasaki, and Batavia and the Coming of the Americans Leonard Blusse ... In an innovative, transnational perspective, Leonard Blusse chronicles the economic and cultural transformations in maritime East Asia through three legendary harbor cities. ...
The vista that awaited the early nineteenth century visitor to Batavia as he disembarked from the... more The vista that awaited the early nineteenth century visitor to Batavia as he disembarked from the launch that had brought him over the shoals of the Batavian roadstead was not a cheerful one.
Riverscapes have recently gained renewed scholarly attention in historical, environmental, and cu... more Riverscapes have recently gained renewed scholarly attention in historical, environmental, and cultural studies on man and the natural environment. This paper explores the extent to which the main rivers of the Southeast Asian subcontinent have given shape to the rice growing human societies that emerged in their basins and, further, how those rivers may have influenced distinct historical state formation processes. In Southeast Asian islands, riverscapes became the cradles of a completely different kind of state formation process: the estuary-based Malay port polity.
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